Ahad Esmaeilian, a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the 2015 ConocoPhillips Graduate Fellowship.
The Texas A&M Energy Institute awards the fellowship, which is funded through ConocoPhillips, to recognize outstanding energy research work performed by Ph.D. students under the supervision of affiliated faculty members of the institute. Each graduate fellowship consists of a $5,000 stipend.
Esmaeilian is currently a third year Ph.D. candidate. He is working as a research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Mladen Kezunovic in the Power Systems Control and Protection Laboratory. His main research interests are wide area power system protection, fault location and application of intelligent methods to power system monitoring and protection.
The Texas A&M Energy Institute pursues and supports new approaches for multi-disciplinary energy research, education and external partnerships. These approaches cross departmental and college boundaries and address all facets of the energy landscape that naturally connect engineering, sciences, technologies, economics, law and policy decisions.